Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Britain's major parties have contrived to postpone a general election until further notice, occasional by-elections to fill vacancies in Parliament are the best indications of political trends. Last week a by-election at Eddisbury (TIME, March 29) suggested a trend away from the principal, trucing parties (Labor, Conservative, Liberal...
Under the operation of both plans a nation would find its credit with the American Fund or British Clearing Union increasing or diminishing according to the trend in balance of payments. If, for instance, Britain were importing more than it was exporting, its holdings of Unitas (or bancor) would tend to diminish (other factors being equal). If the U.S. were exporting more than it was importing, its credit in Unitas (or bancor) would tend to increase...
...found that the fear of inflation dominates 40% of all farm purchases. Other sales are routine: 56% to farmers, 38% to investors, 6% to city folk who have had a lifelong itch for cows, chickens and the smell of manure. Such purchases have boosted prices 15% since 1940; the trend is still up. There is a newer reason for buying farms now: people want to eat, and one good old-fashioned way is to grow food...
...some sacrifice of the little red schoolhouse emphasis on names, dates and places. But any absence of date by date knowledge of our history is more than compensated for by the greater comprehension of American industrial, social, and economic history which is the product of the progressive social science trend...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when he shouted back at Bishop Manning, who had just assailed his "propaganda . . . in behalf of lewdness" from the pulpit. Soon after he reached the Denver bench 43 years ago, little Judge Lindsey started reforming juvenile-court procedure, set the trend away from formality toward privacy, toward distinction between adult crime and juvenile delinquency, a more sympathetic attitude toward delinquents, a more demanding attitude toward irresponsible adults...